Realistic rationalism by Jerrold J Katz(
)23
editions published
between
1997
and
2000
in
3
languages
and held by
2,066 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In Realistic Rationalism, Jerrold J. Katz develops a new philosophical position integrating realism and rationalism. Realism
here means that the objects of study in mathematics and other formal sciences are abstract; rationalism means that our knowledge
of them is not empirical. Katz uses this position to meet the principal challenges to realism. In exposing the flaws in criticisms
of the antirealists, he shows that realists can explain knowledge of abstract objects without supposing we have causal contact
with them, that numbers are determinate objects, and that the standard counterexamples to the abstract/concrete distinction
have no force. Generalizing the account of knowledge used to meet the challenges to realism, he develops a rationalist and
nonnaturalist account of philosophical knowledge and argues that it is preferable to contemporary naturalist and empiricist
accounts. The book illuminates a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of necessity, the distinction between
the formal and natural sciences, empiricist holism, the structure of ontology, and philosophical skepticism. Philosophers
will use this fresh treatment of realism and rationalism as a starting point for new directions in their own research

The metaphysics of meaning by Jerrold J Katz(
)18
editions published
between
1990
and
2010
in
3
languages
and held by
1,957 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In "The Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth century
philosophy. He shows that the naturalism which emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never adequately
proven. Katz critiques the major arguments for contemporary naturalism and develops a new conception of the naturalistic fallacy.
This conception, inspired by Moore, explains why attempts to naturalize disciplines like linguistics and logic, and perhaps
ethics, will fail. He offers a Platonist view of such disciplines, justifying it as the best explanation of their autonomy,
objectivity, and normativity. Katz examines in detail both Wittgenstein's arguments for a deflationary naturalism on which
metaphysics transcends the limits of language, and Quine's arguments for a scientific naturalism on which epistemology is
"an enterprise within natural science." He also analyzes related arguments, including Kripke's on rule following, Chomsky's
for the psychological reality of language, Dummett's on the nature of theories Of meaning, and Davidson's and Putnam's against
intensionalism. Katz shows that, although largely successful against the Fregean psychologized versions of intensionalism,
all these arguments fail against an intensionalism that avoids both Fregeanism and psychologism. "The Metaphysics of Meaning
concludes with a reassessment of the nature of philosophical problems. It explains their recalcitrance, without, like

Sense, reference, and philosophy by Jerrold J Katz(
)17
editions published
between
2003
and
2004
in
English
and held by
1,422 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Jerrold J. Katz develops the philosophical implications of an autonomous theory of sense.
On Katz's intensionalism, sense is divorced from reference; sense mediates, but does not determine, reference. Katz argues
that his theory of "thin" senses accomplishes all and only what a theory of meaning should be responsible for: representations
of the sense structure of the smallest meaning-bearing elements of a language (its morphemes); a dictionary; a set of compositional
principles to form the meanings of sentences; and definitions of sense properties and relations such as synonymy. The theory
of reference, Katz argues, will be related to the theory of sense via a system of referential correlates." "In Sense, Reference,
and Philosophy, Katz provides a modern interpretation of the insights of philosophers like Descartes, Kant, Locke, Mill, and
G.E. Moore and thereby resets the agenda for current analytic philosophy. The scope and rigor of this book will make it of
interest to a broad range of philosophers."--Jacket

Propositional structure and illocutionary force : a study of the contribution of sentence meaning to speech acts by Jerrold J Katz(
Book
)38
editions published
between
1977
and
1980
in
English
and held by
627 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This book offers a new theory of the structure of propositions, which provides a uniform treatment of constative and performative
sentences. Jerrold Katz shows that performatives can enter into logically valid arguments, even though, as Austin claimed,
they can't be true or false. Katz also argues that “speech act theory” is not a theory at all, but an assortment of observations
about heterogeneous aspects of the performance of speech acts. He shows that a better explanation of speech acts is given
by a grammatical account of the iIIocutionary potential of sentences and a separate pragmatic account of how this potential
is realized in actual speech situtations. Katz provides such a grammatical account, which makes it possible for the first
time to explain the iIIocutionary potential of sentences within grammar

Cogitations : cogitations by Jerrold J Katz(
)1
edition published
in
1988
in
English
and held by
328 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The cogito ergo sum of Descartes is one of the best-known (and simplest) of all philosophical formulations, but ever since
it was first propounded it has defied any formal accounting of its validity. How is it that so simple and important an argument
has caused such difficulty and suchphilosophical controversy? In this pioneering work, Jerrold Katz argues that the problem
with the cogito lies where it is least suspected--in a deficiency in the theory of language and logic that Cartesian scholars
have brought to the study of the cogito. Katz contends that the laws of traditional logic have di

Philosophie der Sprache by Jerrold J Katz(
Book
)26
editions published
between
1966
and
1980
in
5
languages
and held by
205 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

La philosophie du langage by Jerrold J Katz(
Book
)7
editions published
in
1971
in
French and Undetermined
and held by
123 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide